Mousavi, Shabnam

Shabnam Mousavi war zunächst Elektroingenieurin und erwarb sowohl in Wirtschaft als auch in Statisik an der Virginia Tech zwei Doktorgrade. Sie ist eine transdisziplinäre Forscherin, die viele Aspekte des menschlichen Verhaltens erforscht. Sie war Faculty Member im Fach Finanzen an der Johns Hopkins und an der Georgia State University und seit 2007 Fellow am Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung. Seit 2008 ist sie auch Mitglied des Wisdom Projektes der Universität Chicago. Sie war Präsidentin der Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics (2018-20). Shabnam ist Chefherausgeberin von Mind and Society,  Mitherausgeberin von Behavioural Economics for Public Policy, sowie Mitglied der Redaktion von Journal of Behavioral & Experimental Economics. Sie arbeitet im Vorstand der Herbert Simon Society, im Lenkungsausschuss der BEFAIRLY initiative der Bank von Italien und in den Fachbeiräten von Evonomics, Panthera Solutions, den Ethics Labs of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), und den Behavioral Decision Making Labs der American University in Cairo.

Ihre Arbeit ist geprägt von der interdisziplinären Zusammenarbeit mit Fachkolleg*innen aus den Feldern der Psychologie, Wirtschaft, Philosophie, Statistik, Physik und Bildung und führte zu unzähligen Veröffentlichungen in verschieden akademischen Zeitschriften verschiedenster Disziplinen wie zum Beispiel Brain and Behavioral Science, Business Research, Economic Methodology, Quality Technology und Risk Management in Financial Institutions und wurde auch international beachtet, wie z.B. in Changing Business, Die Zeit, Johns Hopkins Health Review, John Hopkins Magazine, Neue Züricher Zeitung, Science News, CBC's The Current und Conversation. Sie ist Co-Autorin/Mitherausgeberin von Handbook of Behavioral Economics (2017), Behavioral Finance Revolution (2018), und A Fast and Frugal Finance (2019). Sie erhielt das "A Wisdom Project"-Stipendium von der University of Chicago, und das "Think Forward Initiative"-Stipendium der ING Bank. Derzeit arbeitet sie am Projekt "Lost & Found Emotions in the History of Economic Modeling"mit einer Förderung durch das Programm "Originalitätsverdacht" der Volkswagen-Stiftung.

Publikationen

Monografien und Herausgaben

Companion to Herbert Simon (coedited with Gerd Gigerenzer and Ricardo Viale). Edward Elgar. 2023.

A Fast and Frugal Finance: Bridging Contemporary Behavioral Finance and Ecological Rationality (coauthored with William Forbes and Aloysius Igboekwu). Elsevier. 2019.

The Behavioral Finance Revolution: A New Approach to Financial Policies and Regulations (coedited with Barbara Alemanni, Umberto Filotto and Riccardo Viale). Edward Elgar. 2018.

Handbook of Behavioral Economics (coedited with Roger Frantz, Shu-Heng Chen, Kurt Dopfer and Floris Heukelom). Routledge. 2017.

Dissertationen

A Log-Likelihood Based CUSUM Control Chart for Monitoring Proportions with Correlated Observations. Advisor: Marion R. Reynold, Jr., Virginia Tech. 2006.

Methodological Foundations for Bounded Rationality as a Primary Framework. Advisor: T. Nicholaus Tideman, Virginia Tech. 2002.

Aufsätze

Mousavi, S. and T.N. Tideman (2020). Beyond Economists' Armchair: The Rise of Procedural Economics. In R. Viale (ed.) Handbook of Bounded Rationality. Routledge

Mousavi, S. and S. Sunder (2019). Physical Laws and Human Behavior: A Three-Tier Framework. Cowles Foundation Discussion Paper No 2173. doi: 10.31219/osf.io/nmpc8

Mousavi, S. and J. Schulkin (2019). Ecological Rationality and Evolutionary Medicine: A Fundamental Bridge in Medical Education. In J. Schulkin and M. Power (eds) Integrating Evolution into Medical Education: An Evolving Perspective. Oxford University Press.

Kheirandish, R. and S. Mousavi (2018). Herbert Simon, Innovation, and Heuristics. Mind and Society 17: 1-13. doi: 10.1007/s11299-019-00203-6

Mousavi, S. (2018). Behavioral Policymaking with Bounded Rationality. In R. Viale, S. Mousavi, B. Alemanni and U. Filotto (eds) The Behavioral Finance Revolution: A New Approach to Financial Policies and Regulations. Edward Elgar. 20-32.

Mousavi, S. (2018). What Do Heuristics Have to Do with Policymaking? Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy 2 (1), 69-74.

Mousavi, S. (2018). Book Review: Handbook of the Economics of Risk and Uncertainty. Frontiers of Psychology 9: 730. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00730

Mousavi, S. and G. Gigerenzer (2017). Heuristics are Tools for Uncertainty. Journal of Homo Oeconomicus 34, 361-379.

Mousavi, S. and R. Keirandish (2017). Policy Making with Behavioral Insight. Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy 1(1), 35-39.

Mousavi, S. and D. Funder (2017). Accurate Perceptions Do Not Need Complete Information to Reflect Reality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 40, e12. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X15002393

Nagel, R., A. Bayona, R. Keirandish and S. Mousavi (2017). Reinhard Selten, the Dualist. In R. Frantz, S. Chen, K. Dopfer and S. Mousavi (eds) Handbook of Behavioral Economics. Routledge. 66-87.

Mousavi S. (2017a). Gerd Gigerenzer and Vernon Smith on Ecological Rationality and Heuristics. In R. Frantz, S. Chen, K. Dopfer and S. Mousavi (eds) Handbook of Behavioral Economics. Routledge. 280-296.

Mousavi, S. (2017b). Book Review: What Makes People Tick? Journal of Bioeconomics 19(2), 253-256. doi: 10.1007/s10818-017-9244-0

Mousavi, S., H. Neth, B. Meder and R. Kheirandish (2017). Heuristics: Fast, Frugal, and Smart. In M. Altman (ed.), Handbook of Behavioral Economics and Smart Decision-Making: Rational Decision-Making within the Bounds of Reason. Edward Elgar. 101-118.

Mousavi, S. (2015a). Amos Tverskey - Encyclopedia Entry. In M. Altman (ed.) Real-World Decision Making: An Encyclopedia of Behavioral Economics. Greenwood. 447-450.

Mousavi, S. (2015b). Ecological Rationality - Encyclopedia Entry. In M. Altman (ed.) Real-World Decision Making: An Encyclopedia of Behavioral Economics. Greenwood. 105.

Mousavi, S. and G. Gigerenzer (2014). Risk, Uncertainty, and Heuristics. Journal of Business Research 67(8). 1671-1678.

Mousavi, S. and R. Kheirandish (2014). Behind and Beyond a Shared Definition of Ecological Rationality: A Functional View of Heuristics. Journal of Business Research 67(8). 1780-1785.

Mousavi, S. and G. Gigerenzer (2011). Revisiting the “Error” in Studies of Cognitive Error. In D. A. Hofmann, and M. Frese (eds), Errors in Organizations. Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology (SIOP) Frontiers Series Book. Psychology Press, Taylor and Francis. 97-112.

Shefrin, H. and S. Mousavi (2010). Prediction Tools: Financial Market Regulation, Politics, and Psychology. Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions 3(4). 318-333.

Mousavi, S. and M. R. Reynolds, Jr. (2009). A CUSUM Chart for Monitoring a Proportion with Autocorrelated Binary Observations. Journal of Quality Technology 41(4). 401-414.

Mousavi, S. and M. R. Reynolds, Jr. (2008). Generalized Markov Binary CUSUM. American Statistical Association Joint Statistical Meetings Papers and Proceedings.

Fraker, S. E., W.H. Woodall and S. Mousavi (2008). Performance Metrics for Surveillance Schemes. Quality Engineering 20(4). 451 – 464.

Barton, A., S. Mousavi and J. R. Stevens (2007). A Statistical Taxonomy and Another "Chance" for Natural Frequencies. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30. 255-6.

Haller, H. H. and S. Mousavi (2007). Uncertainty Improves the Second Best. In M. Abdellaoui, R. Luce, M. J. Machina, and B. Munier (eds), Uncertainty and Risk: Mental, Formal, Experimental Representations. 85-100.

Hewett, R., C.A. Holt, G. Kosmopoulou, C. Kymn, C., C.X. Long, S. Mousavi and S. Sarangi (2005). A Classroom Exercise: Voting by Ballots and Feet. Southern Economics Journal 72(1). 253-263.

Mousavi, S. and J. Garrison (2003). Toward a Transactional Theory of Decision Making: Creative Rationality as Functional Coordination in Context. Journal of Economic Methodology 10(2). 131-156.